Image IDs Minoan Pottery

Agios Onoufrios Ware spouted jugs
Early Minoan I ca. 3000-2600 BCE
From Agios Onoufrios, Crete

asiliki Ware beak spouted jug
Early Minoan, 2600-2200 BCE
From Vasiliki, Crete

Minoan stone vases
from Mochlos, Crete
Early and Middle Minoan ca. 2600-1900
Skeuomorphism

White on dark vessels
Early Minoan III ca. 2300-2100 BCE
From Mochlos, Crete

Kamares Ware (Eggshell Ware)
MBA, 2000-1550 BCE
Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, Crete
Named after Kamares Cave near Knossos where it was first excavated
Associated with the Minoan “palaces”

Pedestal krater with plastic decoration
Middle Minoan ca. 1900-1700 BCE
From Phaistos, Crete

Barbotine Ware
Middle Minoan II ca.
1800-1700 BCE

Marine Style, Late Minoan ca. 1500-1100 BCE
Left: rhyton from Palaikastro, Crete
Center: Pithoid amphora from Argive Prosymna (on the Greek mainland!)
Right: Pithoid amphora from Zakros

Floral style vases
Late Minoan ca. 1500-1100 BCE
L: from Sitia; C: from Phaistos; from Palaikastro

Snake Goddess
Middle Minoan ca. 2000-1500 BCE
Faience
From Knossos, Crete

Terracotta Larnax
Late Minoan ca. 1400-1100 BCE
From Kavrochori, Crete